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Show the lAuGhiNg HOW TO MESS UP A JOB INTERVIEW el 4 In What can I do About Hobo Spiders in my House? Answer by: Ryan Davis, Utah State University Extension insect diagnostician • Vacuum regularly. Spi- come in contact with it. ders, webs and egg sacs can • Liquid or dust insecticides This time of year, the be sucked up, directly elim- may be applied directly to Utah Plant Pest Diagnostic inating spiders. Hobo egg webs. This works espeLaboratory at Utah State sacs are generally found cially well for black widow University in Logan is spiders. outside. swamped with spider sub- • Minimize clutter. Spiders • Non-residual aerosol missions, especially hobo love secluded places to hide sprays can be sprayed dispiders. In recent years, and lay egg sacs. Clean rectly on spiders. Spiders this time has become "hobo inside regularly and store not directly contacted with season" at the UPPDL. This clutter in sealable storage this treatment will not die. makes sense, as late sumbins. Outside, move rock • If an outside treatment is mer and early fall are when and wood piles and any- desired, insecticide sprays male hobo spiders are acthing that creates habitat are best timed for when tive and tend to migrate hobo egg sacs are hatching. with small crevices. into dwellings in search of • Change exterior lighting. This will depend largely on mates. Insects are attracted to ex- temperature, but eggs genTlnvasion of homes by terior lights at night. The erally hatch from mid-May hobo spiders is likely reincrease in insects (spider to mid-June in Utah. lated to potential spider food) will also attract an in- • In August through Octohabitat in and around the creased number of spiders ber, it is wise to pull the bed house (log piles, underside looking for food. Replace about eight inches away of rocks, boxes), ease of enregular light bulbs with so- from walls and remove bed try into a house (foundation dium vapor lights since they skirts. This will help keep cracks, vents, doorways), are less attractive to insects. wandering spiders away the number and diversity of • Try sticky traps. Stan- from your bed. spiders and insects already dard sticky traps from lawn • Take caution when pickliving in the house (competand garden shops placed ing up clothes from the itors or food) and the numaround the baseboards of floor or laundry basket. ber of hobos in the general the home will tell you what Spiders hiding in clothes vicinity of a home. They type of spiders are present can be mistakenly grabbed, build their funnel webs if they are ground dwell- resulting in a bite. Also on or around buildings, in ing spiders, and can capture keep children's toys off grass and shrubs and under hobos. Avoid using hobo the floor where spiders can rocks or logs. Inside, they pheromone-baited traps hide under them. hide in dark places such as from August to October in For spider identification, piles of clothes or blankets, Utah when male spiders are send samples to the Utah under furniture or appliancseeking female hobos via Plant Pest Diagnostic Lab es and in boxes or anything pheromones. Traps with (UPPDL): Department of in piles. The majority of the pheromones can effectively Biology, 5305 Old Main population is usually found trap hobo spiders, but also Hill, Logan, Utah, 84322. in the basement, but can be act as an attractant this time If you are bitten by a spider found anywhere. of year, drawing in more and see the actual spider TFor reducing hobo spiders from outside than that bit you, collect it and populations in your home, would normally come in. send it to the lab for posithe key is "long term." Crutive identification. If you • If serious outbreaks are cial to long-term solutions, present, try using chemi- develop negative symphowever, are patience and cal techniques. In secluded toms from the bite, knowtolerance. Consider the folareas, crawl spaces, cracks, ing the type of spider that lowing techniques for longcrevices and areas where bit you will help doctors term hobo control. people won't be coming give you proper treatment. • Seal all cracks and crevTo read about hobo spiin contact with chemicals, ices leading into the home der bites, biology, control, a dust formulation of an with silicon caulking. insecticide such as TriDie history and more, visit the • Install weather stripping can be used. Do not use this UPPDL's new hobo spider around doors and windows, product as a broadcast treat- website at: http://utahpests. especially doors leading to ment over floors and other usu. edu/uppdl/htm/hob o the outside, including the places where people may spiders. garage door. 7 en ASK A SPECIALIST •• In more...I don't have much, but the little I do have, could I give it away? Yes, I have done that. But did I give away my favorite things or only the things that I didn't like or use anymore? And if I lost everything, could I start all over again? The answer to both questions is yes (even though I'm not proud that I answered yes to the first one). It's been said that we can't take "stuff' with us when it's "our time" to go. Well, if that is true, then why do we keep accumulating more stuff? I challenge all of us to learn from Hsieh. And actually even try giving away one of your prized possessions to make someone's day (although Hsieh did not recommend this). Even see how you feel. Maybe give it to another who could never imagine having your prized possession. I guess this would be one way to add to Hsieh's happiness movement. Best yet, do it anonymously. Even Hsieh had to learn what was important, "I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion." Then follow his happiness plan, "Happiness is really just about In In front of my very eyes, and not more than 20 feet ahead of me, Tony Hsieh (pronounced "Shay"), 37, CEO of Zappos.com , stood and proclaimed, "My definition of success is if you can lose everything you have and be okay with it." I made sure to scribble these words down. After all, Hsieh's a man who pretty much has everything and according to worldly standards, has achieved ultimate success yet here he was in faded blue jeans, a navy undershirt and an unkempt striped long-sleeve shirt, with no fan fare, humbly telling us that life is more about creating a movement of happiness than it is about "things". As he spoke, it seemed like a million thoughts ran through my head such as, "How did he get to be so humble?" and "What makes him tick?" and even, "If everyone were like him —especially leadership in the workplace-- our world would be a really cool place." And then I thought, "Wait that is his message. Or at least one of them. Be humble, do what you love, don't be afraid to lose it all, make others happy, etc. So then I wondered some We've all been interviewed for jobs. And, we've all spent most of those interviews thinking about what not to do. Don't bite your nails. Don't fidget. Don't interrupt. Don't belch. If we did any of the don'ts, we knew we'd disqualify ourselves instantly. But some job applicants go light years beyond this. We surveyed top personnel executives of 100 major American corporations and asked four things: perceived con- for stories of unusual behavior by job applicants. The lowlights: trol, perceived progress, • "...stretched out on the floor to fill out the job application." connectedness (number • "She used an iPod and said she could listen to me and the music at the same time." and depth of your relation- • "A balding candidate abruptly excused himself. Returned to office a few minutes later, ships), and vision/meaning wearing a hairpiece." (being part of something • "...asked to see interviewer's resume to see if the personnel executive was qualified to bigger than yourself)." Af- judge the candidate." ter that, since you'll crave • "... announced she hadn't had lunch and proceeded to eat a hamburger and french fries even more Hsieh, read his in the interviewer's office - wiping the ketchup on her sleeve." excellent book: Delivering • "Stated that, if he were hired, he would demonstrate his loyalty by having the corporate Happiness: A Path to Prof- logo tattooed on his forearm." its, Passion, and Purpose. • "Interrupted to phone his therapist for advice on answering specific interview quesThen do whatever it takes tions." to make others happy. And • "When I asked him about his hobbies, he stood up and started tap dancing around my who knows, in the process, office." you might even find your • "...pulled out a Polaroid camera and snapped a flash picture of me. Said he collected photos of everyone who interviewed him." own definition of success. 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L S 69T 8I- 86 L6 5I8 Z 9£ tSL8Z1- ST 9Z6SL BOULDER TOWN FEARS BEING DOWNSTREAM TO ROTENONE AGAIN Written by Boulder Community Residents, submitted by Matt Cochran While many Boul- Residents feel the resulting from an upstream project der residents have no present decision though, is in Redrock Canyon. U.S problem with "native trout not good enough to assuage Rep, Gabrielle Giffords, restoration", they do have their concerns for some of AZ, set up an investigative a problem with the meth- the following reasons: committee to look into roods recently approved by Rotenone is a stan- tenone while its current use the Dixie National Forest dard in fish management is being fought over in state which allows Utah Divi- being economical and ef- legislation. In California, sion of Wildlife Resources ficient yet it continues to though recent injunctions (UDWR) to use the aquatic raise serious questions. have stopped rotenone use poison rotenone to "re- While rotenone kills the in wilderness areas (Silmove" unwanted fish spe- intended fish (in this case ver Creek) for ecological cies. Rotenone is highly Brook Trout introduced by reasons, UDWR will start controversial and of dan- UDWR 40 years ago) it also to poison Sheep Creek in gerous concern to public kills everything else: native the High Uinta Wilderness health due to its relation- cutthroat that are there, and of northeastern Utah this ship to Parkinson's Disease. amphibians. It also kills week. The August 25 de- aquatic macro-inverteIts disastrous efcision by Rob MacWhorter, brates. This is evidenced by fects are evident from the Dixie National Forest Su- lakes on Boulder Mountain- 1993 Virgin River event pervisor, to allow use of top that are now green algae where rotenone traveled 50 rotenone (for three more blooms, or "cesspools" as miles downstream; in an years) on Boulder Creek one resident puts it, due to incident in 2010 on Cherry adds insult to injury. In the the loss of these invisible Creek in Montana where Autumn 2009, UDWR poi- species. Long-term effects it flowed for 30 miles into soned an eight-mile stretch up the food chain have been the Madison River; and the infamous 1997 Lake Davis of Boulder Creek without inadequately studied. notification to the town of Banned completely case in California where 80 Boulder which is down- in the EU, rotenone in the residents filed health claims stream several miles. A por- U.S. is no longer certified because their water was tion of this water is used for for use on crops, livestock, contaminated. the town's irrigation and pets, or in marine-estuarian Boulder residents recreation, and supplies wa- systems. Over 210 scientific are clear they don't want ter to livestock, farms, and papers link it to Parkinson's to be "downstreamers". gardens. Disease and recent stud- No community deserves to The Town Council ies implicate it even more be put in harm's way from unanimously approved a clearly. See: http://www.be- unintended consequences resolution against the use of yondpesticides.org/health/ — or as a result of the failrotenone, with 85 percent parkinsonsdisease.htm ure of agencies involved to All this is why of Boulder residents oppossupport non-poison alternaing its use. Together they Arizona recently tried to tives for fish management, forced government agen- prohibit its use in freshwa- such as those implemented cies to do an Environmental ter. The municipal wells successfully by YellowAssessment (EA) in order of Patagonia, AZ, are in stone National Park. to look at possible impacts. danger of being poisoned |